Cooking with Roo - Young People's Cooking Class in an Art Gallery!

Learn how to make a delicious traditional Indian snack amongst the artwork in the Gallery during our exhibition all about food - Don't Play With Your Food!

Roo invites you to a cook and learn the art of traditional Punjabi potato flatbreads, known as Aloo Paratha. Grab your aprons and learn this unique recipe passed down from Roo’s grandparents. After we’ve finished cooking, we’ll enjoy a sit down lunch in traditional steel thali’s with condiments to complement our flatbreads.

Edible Playground - A Don't Play With Your Food Supper Club

Created by artist, chef and academic Helen Russell Brown, Edible Playground is a playful rejection of table manners. We will invite diners to put their elbows on the table and take a trip down memory lane to rediscover the joy and nostalgia of food.

The menu is inspired by Helen’s own personal food memories from childhood and beyond. It will be full of warm familiar treats as well as some surreal culinary experiments. Diners are invited to sit at our sculptural tablescape and experience a meal that sits at the intersection between food, art and playgrounds.

Who's In The House

Join us for our first ever Open Season Show. It will be a music melting pot with something for everyone. Some of our longest standing teachers and ensembles will perform alongside new talent, through Music House’s latest young recruits – New Generation.

Music House Gospel Choir, led by MOBO nominee, Leroy Johnson, will raise the roof and your spirits. Whilst the country’s first and only youth reggae choir, Reggae Roots, led by reggae pioneer, Judah, will mellow the mood.

Free Drop-In Piano Dissection Crafting Workshop with Pianodrome

Join the Pianodrome Team for Free, Drop-in Piano Dissection Workshops at Besbrode Pianos.

Drop-in and lend a hand or stay all day!

The Pianodrome will dissect defunct pianos one-by-one into component parts to be later re-purposed into 12 magnificent piano planters bursting with flowers, grasses, vegetables and herbs grown by local community gardening groups. These planters will bring a sensory explosion of colours, smells and tastes to the streets of Leeds and Bradford city centres around The Leeds International Piano Competition 2024.

Leeds Photo Social

Our photo socials are open to everyone and are absolutely free. This is a friendly event for anyone who wants to share their work or meet other people from the Leeds photography community. These socials are facilitated by Dan Wheeler from our sister lab, Make It Easy.

Leila and the Wolves

Leila and the Wolves is a film that reveals a nearly forgotten past of women’s struggle in Palestine and Lebanon attempting to retell these regional narratives from a feminist perspective. As John Akomfrah has written, Leila and the Wolves “weaves a rich tableau of history, folklore, myth and archival material.”

Farewell Amor

Reunited after a 17 year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional distance between them.

This film screening will start at 6pm sharp, no ads and trailers. It is part of Leeds International African Arts Festival 2024, and curated by our partner Maona Art.

You can book any 4 Cinema Africa! tickets for the price of 3, and any 14 Cinema Africa! tickets for the price of 10.

Amchilini

In the canton of Boutefil at the gateway to the Chadian desert, unmarried women are accused by the Iman of being the source of the divine wrath on the village. The village chiefs decide to hold a traditional ceremony, the Amchilini, which consists in forcing all unmarried women to choose a husband. But there are voices, especially among young girls, against what they see as an attack to their dignity and freedom. They claim equal rights and autonomy as men.

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